Davao Events: Lose Weight, Get Active...Fight Diabetes! May 18, Abreeza

The Philippine Diabetic Athletes (PDAT), a non-stock, non-profit organization that seeks to inspire, educate, and encourage Filipino diabetics to manage their disease through an active and healthy lifestyle, is bringing its fourth leg of seminars titled “Lose Weight, Get Active… Fight Diabetes!” to Davao City.

The fourth leg of this seminar series will be held on May 18, 2013 (Saturday), from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. at the Abreeza Mall’s Activity Center. Diabetics, candidates for diabetes, as well as their family members are invited to be a part of this event to gain a deeper understanding of the disease, and learn about lifestyle changes that can help lessen the impact of diabetes in their daily lives.

This event’s admission is FREE and open to anyone interested.

Program:
10:30 am. - 11:30 a.m.   Active Living: The Natural Way to Control Diabetes

Find out how sports and active living can improve your well-being.

Dr. Judy Ann Gatmin – Yuzon - Diabetologist

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  Proper Nutrition for Diabetics

Learn how to maintain a proper diet for weight loss.

Ms. Teresita Ng - Nutritionist

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.      Lay Lecture on Diabetes Prevention

Get pointers and good habits you can incorporate into your lifestyle in order to control your disease.

Dr. Roy Ferrer - Diabetologist

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.      The Diabetic Athlete

Participate in sports safely and effectively. Learn how to become a better diabetic athlete.

Dr. Veronica Racho - Diabetologist

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.     Running Basics

Start running by getting into a sustainable running program.

Coach Titus Salazar – Running Coach

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.      Committing to an Active Lifestyle.

Learn how you can keep an active lifestyle and continue to control you disease the natural way.

Mr. Richard Erick Caballero – Health Capacity Building Officer

The last leg of this event will be held in Manila in June 23, 2013 at the Glorietta Activity Center. Like their Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeamTriabetics or follow them on twitter @Triabetics.

Win Up Dharma Down Tickets, Simply Share Your Tienda del Mercado Experience

Want to win tickets to the upcoming Up Dharma Down concert this coming May 25, 2013? Well, the good news is, you don't have to go through a needle's hole just to get them.

Tienda del Mercado's Summerfaction, now on it's "rest week" in compliance to the liquor ban and the upcoming electoral activities, still gives you something to do...and throws in a prize at that. They're officially announcing their SUMMERFACTION BLOG CONTEST where all you have to do is the following:

1. Write a blog entry with at least 200 words describing your Tienda del Mercado experience. Publish at least 1 picture as well. What was it like having to choose from over 30 yummy food choices? How did you find the place? What particular feature of TDM did you like most? Basically, anything. You can even talk about how your friend turned emo after 4 bottles of beer and 5 barbeque sticks.

2. Like the official Tienda del Mercado and Summerfaction page. (Just click the texts to get their links.)

3. Tell us why you want to see Up Dharma Down this coming May 25!

4. Share the link of your blog via FB and tag 5 of your friends.

5. Share the link of your blog on the official Summerfaction page so we can record your entry.

See? It's very easy. Even 200 words is like 2 paragraphs only. :) Deadline for entries will be on May 22, 2013 12:00noon. Winner gets 2 tickets to see Up Dharma Down for free plus 2 bottles of beer. 1 winner will be picked on May 23, 2013 so tell all your friends about this! Get those entries coming!

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Tienda del Mercado is located at Juna Parking Lot, Juna Subd., Davao city. For the complete list of SUMMERFACTION activities, you may click this link.

Sweet Spot Artisan Ice Cream - Davao

The luxurious taste of freshly made artisan ice cream is hard to beat! That is why at Sweet Spot Cafe, a lot of people crave for that cold, creamy goodness any time of the day or year!

What is Artisan Ice Cream?
Quite simply, artisan ice cream is ice cream made by an artisan which the dictionary definition of artisan being a ‘skilled craftsperson’. Delving a bit deeper in to the dictionary tells us that a crafts-person is someone who makes things skillfully by hand.

Artisan ice cream producers are able to be ‘hands on’ as they make smaller batches of ice cream that will be sold and eaten in as short a time as possible, so they remain as ‘fresh’ as ice cream is supposed to be.

These artisans also use processes and machinery that need the ‘human touch’ be it in choosing and mixing the ingredients or keeping a close eye on the freezing to make sure the ice cream is of the smoothest, highest quality possible.

Why Sweet Spot?

As the first and only maker of artisan ice cream in Davao city, Sweet Spot takes on the same brand of quality that cements decades of business success with their tourism-inclined sister companies, all set to deliver the ultimate  adventure, dining and entertainment experiences.

Must-try flavors:

*Bananuts

*Mangomazing

*Crocodile durian (made from real crocodile eggs!)

*Chocolate

*Chocnut

*Beer

*Dragonfruit

*Melon

*Strawberry

All flavors are also available by the gallon. For orders, you can contact the number posted below.

Location: Crocodile Park Complex, Ma-a Diversion Road, Davao city

Telephone #: (082) 225 0184

Facebook: Sweet Spot Artisan Ice Cream

Kakao Eskwela TV: Raising the Bar in Agri-focused Multimedia Education

Kakao Eskwela, a School-on-the-Air radio program that gives useful information about cocoa farming, crop establishment, crop maintenance and harvest and post harvest operations, just had its successful run with around 180 students who enrolled via text through the CoCoPal SMS Information Center. This radio program is aired over DXGM SuperRadyo 1125 kHz every 4:30 - 5:00 AM from Mondays to Fridays, and hosted by Janoz Laquihon and Mae Braza. This project is one of the multimedia efforts of the CoCoPal Training and Extension Program. CoCoPal stands for Cocoa, Coconut and Palayamanan, a blanket project for integrated farming systems implemented by ACDI/VOCA and funded by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture).

Gear Up for an Exciting Summer with SUMMERFACTION

Davao’s recreational scene has always been underestimated, but this doesn’t mean that Davaoenyos do not know how to have fun! That is the inspiration behind Tienda del Mercado’s Summerfest, a string of fun-filled weekends designed to capture the entire family’s energy! Check out the list of activities in the poster just above this blog entry and you'll see how Summerfaction changes our fun landscape. See you there!

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There are only a few slots left to book as exhibitor. If you're interested, text/ call Gerlie at this number: 0906 411 6391. Rents go for as low as P5,000 for 12 days (4 weekends) already. Would be great to have you onboard!

Davao, Diving and Maxima Aquafun Beach Resort

Maxima Aquafun's Famous Water Slide

The best thing about Davao City is that it naturally embraces the outdoors along with its urban lifestyle feel. Its advantageous location boasts of being typhoon-free and being a tourist recreational hub. One of the most sought after destinations would be the beaches off the city shore at Island Garden City of Samal. Although it is considered as a distinct city from Davao, it shares its strong cultural ties, adventure and love for fun aquatic activities.

Blugre Opens Mall Branches

Blugre, as a proud homegrown brand of Davao city, takes it to a different level this year by opening mall branches. They just opened their Abreeza, Gaisano Mall and SM Lanang Premier branches and boy, Davao has never been prouder.

So, what's new with Blugre? Aside from the mall branches, they'll be renovating ALL Davao city branches too! They'll also open their Tagum branch by the last week of February. Coffee is still as good, and the pastries are divine. My personal picks are Choco Torte, Hungarian Sausage Breakfast Meal and their home-brewed iced tea. 

Now, they might not be very noisy about this, but Blugre is one brand that really knows how to give back. As a long-time advocate of the government's Carbon Neutral program, they believe that the advancement of their business should also take into consideration the developments of its vicinity and the communities that built it. They also provide support to several B'laan tribes by supporting their livelihoods through fair coffee trading and helping them build schools. THAT, their yummy coffeee, and their super cozy ambiance, surely warm one's heart.

Here are other pics from my favorite branch, Abreeza:

Bulgogi Brothers Now Open in Davao

With over 38 stores in South Korea to its first Philippine branch, Bulgogi brothers paved its way to the hearts of the Filipinos. In fact, BB just invaded Davao with the opening of its second outside Luzon branch at the 2nd flr. of SM Lanang Premier's Fountain Court.

The 80-seater restaurant invites residents of Davao city and neighbouring towns whoa are in for great meals whenever they visit Bulgogi Brothers. They don't have to travel far for a taste of authentic Korean dining.

The authentic dining experience starts with complimentary side dishes and the quintessential Kimchi. There's also free-flowing organic corn tea, that is perfect for a huge meal of Bulgogi Brothers' Unyang (classic beef patties), Gwang Yang (seasoned beef with sweet sauce), Seoul (sliced beef with mixed vegetables, fruits and onion), Kimchi-jjigae (spicy stew made with kimchi pork and tofu) and Dubu steak (fried crispy tofu with teriyaki sauce and bean sprout. And these are just few of their menu must-try's.

Check out Bulgogi Brothers at SM Lanang Premier and have a hearty Korean meal! :)

Events in Davao: Davao Celebrates 17th National Autism Consciousness Week

(image from specialeducation.departments.pwcs.edu)

The third week of January has been declared National Autism Consciousness Week, following Presidential Proclamation 711 signed in 1996 by then President Fidel V. Ramos.  This year’s celebration, slated on January 20-27, is the 17^th National Autism Consciousness Week and has adopted the theme, “Autismo Alamin Pagtanggap at Pag-unawa Palagananpin”, to promote the right information on autism that will pave the way for the public to truly understand and accept persons with autism as part of the society.

Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how an individual interprets what he sees, hears, and touches, thereby impairing his understanding and use of language and his adaptation to his environment.  Autism is now considered the fastest rising developmental disability in the world.  In the Philippines, almost 1 million Filipino families are estimated to be affected with autism.

Autism Society Philippines (ASP) has been in the forefront of providing services to families affected with autism. ASP has grown from the 11 mothers who bonded together for the causes of their children in 1989, to more than 8,000 members, with 62 chapters all over the country.

TATERS Buy 1 Take 1 Sandwiches

Munch your favorite goodies while watching your favorite flicks! TATERS Snack League is happy to tell us about their BUY 1 TAKE 1 promo on the following sandwiches:

Churkey Hotdog

Grilled Chicken Sandwich

All Beef Burger

Mini Churkey Burger

Hotdog and Tuna Mushroom Burger

Now you have the perfect excuse to ask THE ONE on a date! Haha! Or you can chomp both while sitting through your chosen flick. Remember, offer good while supply lasts! :-) See you at the theatres!

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This promo is available at TATERS Abreeza and TATERS Gaisano Mall branches.

Davao Hiring: Civic Merchandising/ Volvo Construction Equipment and Trucks

Civic Merchandising/ Volvo Construction Equipment and Trucks

Secretary

Female

Fluent in English and Filipino

Graduate of Business Course

Fresh Graduates are welcome

Electrician for Heavy Equipment

Male

Not more than 40 years old

Graduate of any Electrical Course

Willing to be assigned anywhere in Mindanao

Counter Salesman

Male

not more than 30 years old

Preferably single

Graduate of any Engineering Course

All interested applicants submit your Resume/CV and address your application to

Roderick E. Lim

AVP - Mindanao

Door 5 K7 Strip Bldg., Lanang, Davao city

Email applications are also accepted. Send email to alel@civicmdsg.com.ph.